stephen192
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Q: How do I stop Versions from filling up my disk?

I have a 250 GB flash drive and 90 GB of that is currently taken up by the Versions and Auto-save database. I can see this by running the following command:

 

sudo du -sh .DocumentRevisions-V100

 

I am constantly running out of space on the disk and yet don't know of a way to tell Mac OS to allocate less of it to this database. Manually deleting the database from time to time is a terrible kludge and not something I sohuld have to do.

 

What can I do to get around this situation?

 

Many thanks,

Stephen

MacBook Air, OS X Yosemite (10.10.4), null

Posted on Jul 29, 2015 3:48 AM

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  • by Linc Davis,Helpful

    Linc Davis Linc Davis Jul 29, 2015 8:24 AM in response to stephen192
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    Jul 29, 2015 8:24 AM in response to stephen192

    There is no easy way to solve the problem without deleting the Versions database completely. Often there's just one large document, or perhaps a few documents, with a long version history that takes up most of the space. If you can figure out which document that is, delete or prune its history.